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AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



London markets are grateful alike to sight and smell, and the rich 

 fragrance the flowers dispense fill the air with sweetness. In its 

 wild state the flowers are always single and of a bright yellow 

 colour, but cultivation has done wonders with it, and in the present 

 day we are in possession of varieties of various shades, pale yellow 

 to gold, and bright chestnut to deep maroon. The double alpine 

 varieties are very fragrant, and exceedingly useful in borders and 

 rockeries. The habit of the wallflower is almost perfect — dwarf, 

 bushy, and compact. 

 Cherry Pie. See Heliotropum. 



Chimaphila. — A genus of shrubby evergreen plants, natives of the 

 cooler parts of the Northern hemispliere, bearing handsome bell- 

 shaped flowers, generally white and very sweet-scented. 



Chimonanthus fragrans {Winter Sweet, or Chinese Snowdrop Tree). — 

 Closely allied to the Calycanthus. This is one of the most charming 

 hardy winter-flowering shrubs it is possible to have, blossoming as it 

 does in almost any aspect but the north. It is also excellent as a 

 cut flower, for a bunch of its budding twigs placed in water will 

 last a long time, and emit a delightful fragrance at a time of year 

 when the floral world seems wrapt in slumber, for it flowers in the 

 depth of winter before the leaves appear, like the naked Jessamine. 

 The perfume emitted from the somewhat insignificant blooms is 

 exceedingly powerful but pleasing. 



Chionanthus retusus. — An American deciduous shrub bearing clusters 

 of white starry flowers, delicately perfumed. 



Chlidanthus fragrans. — A South American bulbous plant that bears 

 yellow fragrant tubular flowers. Also called Pancratium luteinn. 



Chloranthus inconspicuus. — A Chinese shrub, with fragrant flowers 

 that are dried and largely employed in scenting the more ex- 

 pensive perfumed Teas. C. officinalis, from Java, is strongly 

 aromatic. 



Choisya ternata (American Orange Floioer). — A handsome shrub from 

 Mexico ; the flowers are pure white and star-shaped, very freely 

 produced, and emit a pleasing but not too powerful odour, strongly 

 resembling the Hawthorn. 



Chonemorpha macrophylla, an Indian climber with white fragrant 

 flowers. 



Chroolepis, a mossy plant found growing on damp walls, bark of old 

 trees, etc., when fresh it emits a scent like that of violets ; also 

 known as Sweet-scented Byssus. 



Chrysanthemum [Queen of the Autumn). — Although this charming 

 genus of flowering plants, mostly from Japan, is rarely met with 

 possessing scented attractions in their dainty blooms, the foliage 



